- I don’t really agree with the suggestions made in this somewhat interesting revisitation of Kerouac. Various individuals bring out the standard charges — that traveling and writing on the road is largely a middle-class endeavor, that the age of Beat-like exploration is dead, et al. If there is a literary paucity, I’m wondering, however, if it’s more of a case of the publishing industry taking fewer chances on work they deem as experimental. (via Books, Inq.)
- Litblog Co-Op madness begins this week with Nicola Griffith’s Always.
- I’ve been informed that Issue #4 of A Public Space features a lengthy piece involving Vollmann in Toronto (including illustrations). As soon as I get my hands on a copy, I’ll offer a report on this essay.
- Min Jin Lee on Middlemarch. And more on Middlemarch from A.S. Byatt. (latter link via Bookdaddy)
- Louise Tucker insists that the publishing industry never had a golden age.
- Fuck off, CBC. (via Bookninja)
- Over at Sarah’s, the new Warren Ellis novel seems to have caused a rather bizarre series of clarifications.
- Is Bella Stander confessing that she’s into zoophilia?
- Burmese novelist Tayar Min Wai has passed on.
- It looks like things aren’t going so well in Zimbabwe literary affairs.